The good news: John Krasinski is returning to TV! The bad news: he’s not doing so in a comedy. Or, come to think of it, a show that literally airs on television.

Instead, Krasinski will star as Tom Clancy’s most famous creation in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, a new series that Amazon officially greenlit Monday. The show, produced by Paramount TV and Skydance, will not follow the shadow recruit through clear and present danger as executive orders charge him to face the sum of all fears (and hunt for Red October); instead, according to a release, it imagines Ryan as “an up-and-coming C.I.A. analyst thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time,” in a series not based specifically on any one Clancy novel. We’re not going to call it Muppet Babies Jack Ryan, but we’re also not not going to call it that.

The latest iteration of Jack Ryan—a character who’s been portrayed in the past by a laundry list of big-name white guys, including Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and, most recently, Chris Pine—will have support from executive producer Carlton Cuse, who knows a thing or two about shepherding beloved intellectual property into a new era: his well-received A&E series Bates Motel (i.e. Muppet Babies Psycho) has been successful enough to inspire a wave of imitators, including Fox’s upcoming The Exorcist franchise extension. Graham Roland, late of Almost Human and Fringe, is also on board to executive produce—and perhaps inject a bit of genre flare into Clancy’s world of espionage.

The 10-episode drama will debut on Amazon Prime Video when you least expect it—or, perhaps, in 2017.

Harry the Spy: The Secret Pre-History of a James Bond Producer

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Harry Saltzman’s Oath of Allegiance to the United States, March 24, 1939. The Canadian-born Saltzman, having already served his native land as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, becomes a U.S. citizen in 1939. His oath form curiously mis-identifies his place of birth as “St. Johns, N.B.,” meaning the city of Saint John in New Brunswick; Saltzman was in fact born in Sherbrooke, Quebec. David Giammarco suspects that U.S. intelligence agents were already preparing him at this time for work in the field.
GIAMMARCO: “False birthplaces are standard procedure in intelligence filing systems. The misleading files help protect against any moles within an intelligence agency who may access the dossiers of agents stationed behind enemy lines. The ‘real’ files are often kept compartmented within special operating sections, with access restricted to only a very select few.”